Financial Quotes

Since the global financial crisis and recession of 2007-2009, criticism of the economics profession has intensified. The failure of all but a few professional economists to forecast the episode - the aftereffects of which still linger - has led many to question whether the economics profession contributes anything significant to society.

~ Robert J. Shiller

In the future, financial firms of any type whose failure would pose a systemic risk must accept especially close regulatory scrutiny of their risk-taking.

~ Ben Bernanke

The offshoring of American jobs by global corporations and the deregulation of the U.S. financial system have resulted in American economic failure.

~ Paul Craig Roberts

For market discipline to constrain risk effectively, financial institutions must be allowed to fail. Under optimal financial regulatory and financial system infrastructures, such a failure would not threaten the overall system.

~ Henry Paulson

Don't reward bad behavior. It is one of the first rules of parenting. During the financial cataclysm of 2008, we said it differently. When we bailed out banks that had created their own misfortune, we called it a 'moral hazard,' because the bailout absolved the bank's bad acts and created an incentive for it to make the same bad loans again.

~ Eliot Spitzer

Parenting classes should be mandatory, whether you are adopting or not, and would include an evaluation of your current physical, mental and financial state as well as how ready you are to take on the rigors of parenthood. Our children are our most precious natural resource, and there is absolutely no other way to parent but to put them first.

~ Dale Archer

Reflecting back, we all make mistakes; we all go through our stuff - relationships, financial, all kinds of stuff - and if you can grow from that and pass that message on, it's a pretty cool thing.

~ Nikki Sixx

The first reason for the preponderant influence of those Evangelicals who define themselves as advocates of Religious Right theological and political ideologies is that they have both the financial means and technological know-how to make widespread use of modern electronic forms of communication.

~ Tony Campolo

The Global Financial Crisis and Great Recession posed daunting new challenges for central banks around the world and spurred innovations in the design, implementation, and communication of monetary policy.

~ Janet Yellen

I never have used computers or calculators. I've always been able to figure out in my head, far before my opposition has, in negotiating for acquisitions, where we need to be and where the numbers are and how we could get the best sight of the bargain, without having to resort to accountants or assistants or financial experts.

~ Jon Huntsman

'Bloomberg's, you know, for people who don't use the service, provides through the Internet - through specialized computers - information about the financial world. It's a very large data base. I think they have on the order of a billion dollars or more a year in revenue.

~ Craig Venter

Over and over again, financial experts and wonkish talking heads endeavor to explain these mysterious, 'toxic' financial instruments to us lay folk. Over and over, they ignobly fail, because we all know that no one understands credit default obligations and derivatives, except perhaps Mr. Buffett and the computers who created them.

~ Richard Dooling

Financial freedom is available to those who learn about it and work for it.

~ Robert Kiyosaki

As an actor, to have achieved financial stability is amazing. But I always have this weird fear that I'm not going to get any more work; it's about not having enough money.

~ Paul Giamatti

You have to pretend that your life is a financial pleasure even when your autographs are bouncing.

~ Kinky Friedman

If I had my choice, every high school would be teaching financial literacy along with math and science.

~ Gregory Meeks

If our nation goes over a financial Niagara, we won't have much strength and, eventually, we won't have peace. We are currently borrowing the entire defense budget from foreign investors. Within a few years, we will be spending more on interest payments than on national security. That is not, as our military friends say, a 'robust strategy.'

~ Mitch Daniels

The financial crisis should not become an excuse to raise taxes, which would only undermine the economic growth required to regain our strength.

~ George W. Bush

While President Bush likes to project an image of strength and courage, the real truth is that in the presence of his large financial contributors, he is a moral coward.

~ Al Gore

The lack of financial strength to avail healthcare is a major challenge.

~ N. R. Narayana Murthy

If my strength is technology, financial structuring is my son's skill.

~ Baba Kalyani

You know, oil prices from 2007, on the strength of a very robust global economy and a very robust emerging China, many of you will recall, ramped up to near $150 a barrel. Then we had the financial - U.S. financial collapse. Oil prices collapsed all the way down to $40 a barrel.

~ Rex Tillerson

The strength in our third-quarter financial results is cause for excitement. I'm particularly pleased that we continue to demonstrate impressive growth at the same time we are engaged in important merger discussions.

~ Bernard Ebbers

Our strength in finance has led us to set up an international financial centre with medium and long-term objectives, especially to develop Islamic financial and insurance services.

~ Hassanal Bolkiah

Bankruptcy is about financial death and financial rebirth. Bankruptcy is the great American story rewritten. We're a nation of debtors.

~ Elizabeth Warren

We live in an age of great jitteriness in the financial markets. And there's no doubt at all, I think, that the volume of computer-traded stocks has helped contribute to that.

~ Robert Harris

My mother inspired me to treat others as I would want to be treated regardless of age, race or financial status.

~ Tommy Hilfiger

I'm a big advocate of financial intelligence.

~ Daymond John

I want parents to teach that academic intelligence is essential, but so is financial intelligence.

~ Robert Kiyosaki

Savvy companies are quietly changing up their boards of directors and teams, and this is giving them better collective intelligence, more community admiration, and better financial results.

~ Aileen Lee

Do not leave yourself or your family unprotected against financial storms... Build up savings.

~ Ezra Taft Benson

Being rich is a good thing. Not just in the obvious sense of benefitting you and your family, but in the broader sense. Profits are not a zero sum game. The more you make, the more of a financial impact you can have.

~ Mark Cuban

Our overriding goal in restructuring our financial architecture should be that taxpayers never again have to save a failing financial institution.

~ Henry Paulson

You look at the steamboat, the railroad, the car, the airplane - not all of these were invented in the Anglo-American world, but they were popularized and extended by it. They were made possible by the financial architecture, the capital intensive operations invented and developed by the Anglo-Americans.

~ Walter Russell Mead

Work to me has become kind of a hobby. I was a part of something that gave me financial independence and the rent is paid. Now it's just about projects that turn me on.

~ Matt Leblanc

A tragic irony of life is that we so often achieve success or financial independence after the chief reason for which we sought it has passed away.

~ Ellen Glasgow

My feeling is that maintaining financial independence is also a healthy way to keep my feet on the ground.

~ Valerie Trierweiler

Governments must commit to sound economic and financial policies. This is how we ensure reform in the euro area - and our independence.

~ Mario Draghi

In July, 1892, fate suddenly granted me financial independence.

~ Carl Spitteler

Food Stamp recipients didn't cause the financial crisis recklessness on Wall Street did.

~ Barack Obama